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...away your workday dreaming of your next vacation? Better dial your travel agent or get on the Web, because it looks as if Europe is the trip of the year. Last week the euro continued its yearlong decline, slipping below parity with the dollar. It was an important psychological barrier, and experts expect the beleaguered currency will continue its slide over the next few months. On the negative side, that means U.S. exports are getting progressively more expensive for European buyers. But cafes in Paris and pensiones in Rome are getting cheaper by the day. The buying power...
...Social issues may not be a barrier--but what about elections...
...childhood dream flickered back to life. She entered the University of Miami medical school the year Sashi graduated from high school. It was 1993, and 42% of medical students were female. Bach will graduate in June; she plans to go into private practice. Gender is no longer a barrier, and her age and experience give her an edge. "I don't get as tired being on call as the younger kids," she says. "It's nothing like staying up all night with a sick child...
...have seen the future of the American economy, and its name is NASDAQ. The tech-heavy stock index continued its surge into record territory Thursday morning, after Wednesday's historic breaking of the 4,000 barrier. And while the good new continued for the Dow and the S&P 500, both of which surged in the last trading session before Y2K, neither has been able to match the NASDAQ comebaq. That index's outperforming of both the Dow and the S&P may make 1999 the year tech stocks finally silenced their naysayers. "The NASDAQ represents the vanguard...
...connected through their experiences. Throughout their friendship, they learn that they have much in common, and although the premise is that they are never reunited after their first encounter, they often speak directly and even touch across the geographic and political divide, which thus becomes an imaginary barrier in the human sense...